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Top five: holiday retail trends to the fore

Sherrilynne Starkie

This week’s top five social media must-know news stories feature important retail trends for the run up to the holidays. Google My Business, Snapchat, blended retail, Facebook and Google Assistant all feature. Google My Business rolls out new feature. Facebook and Macy’s team up.

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Social Networking Stats: Amazon Is Top Retailer on Pinterest, #RLTM Scoreboard

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Facebook: 1.15 via Facebook. Google Plus: 343 million monthly active users. Amazon Is Most Popular Retailer on Pinterest In Terms of Content Shared. Retailers are putting out their best efforts on Pinterest for the 2013 holiday season. Are you pinning content from retail brands on Pinterest? via YouTube.

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The Amazon That You Don't See (That Google And Facebook Are Watching)

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From the piece: "While people wax poetic about the retail prowess and clout of Amazon, I am always quick to point out that they are one of the most fascinating media companies that has ever been created. The company's ad business is 'gaining significant momentum' and will take market share from Google, Facebook, and others.

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Top Five: social networks push new shopping features

Sherrilynne Starkie

This week's top five must-know social media news come from LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Google and Pinterest. Facebook introduces new shopping features. Facebook's new store sales optimization brings the power of machine learning to help retailers show ads to the people who are most likely to make an in store purchase.

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How Social Media Changes Retail Storefronts

Ari Herzog

I was taught that the area closest to door handles was more valuable then retail space on 5th Avenue. In the front window next to the door there are four social decals — Google Favorite Places, CitySearch, Foursquare, and LevelUp. My gym has Twitter and Facebook decals on the front door (bottom right). Got a question?

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SortPrice Store Facebook Application Tops 1000 Retailers

Bill Hartzer

Proving yet again a real commitment to opening new avenues of success for online merchants everywhere, comparison shopping engine SortPrice.com has now built virtual stores for more than 1,000 retailers through its Merchant Store application on Facebook.

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Reengineering Retail With Doug Stephens - This Week's Six Pixels Of Separation Podcast

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Doug Stephens is one of the world's foremost retail industry futurists. His work and thinking has influenced some of the world's best-known retailers, agencies and brands. Prior to founding Retail Prophet , Doug spent over 20 years as a professional in the retail industry. Is this the end or just the beginning of retail?

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